Tsewang Lhamo (singer)

Tsewang Lhamo(Tibetan: ཚེ་དབང་ལྷ་མོ།; born June 15, 1985 Draggo, Garzê Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Eastern Tibet) is a Tibetan singer.[1]

Tsewang lhamo

Biography

In 2011, Tsewang went to the United States to perform at a concert organized by the Thrace Foundation in conjunction with the International Conference on Tibetan Language, and received a joyous welcome from Tibetans in NYC who were able to see her for the first time. She released her first solo album, Gangri Bumo, in 2012. It became a hit with Tibetan audiences. Her second album, The Girl from the Tibetan Plateau, which was sung entirely in Tibetan, was released in 2012.[2]

Tsewang is popular in the Tibetan community, as well as in Himalayan country, Nepal, and northern India. She sings both old Tibetan folk and pop songs, and has released 30 songs and 5 albums.[3] In May 2017, Tsewang released a duet with lead Tibetan singer Sherten in tribute to His Highness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje.[4]

Discography

References
  1. ""The teeth of the storm":".
  2. ""Tibetan Soul" by Tsewang Lhamo and "Potala" by Kadrak Trayang". March 14, 2013.
  3. "Tsewang Lhamo biography". Last.fm. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
  4. Kenze 85. "TSEWANG LHAMO & SHERTEN 2017 རྒྱལ་མཆོག་ཀརྨ་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་འཁྲུངས་རབས་དད་པའི་གསོས་སྨན། HD". Retrieved December 20, 2018 – via YouTube.
  5. "Interview with singer Tsewang Lhamo". Tibet Web Digest. Retrieved July 11, 2018.
  6. ""Tibetan Soul" by Tsewang Lhamo and "Potala" by Kadrak Trayang". High Peaks Pure Earth. March 14, 2013. Retrieved July 11, 2018.


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